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Abuse Survivor's Series: Using Overreactions to Begin Healing Our Childhood Wounds
Abuse Survivor's Series: nUsing Overreactions To Begin Healing Our Childhood WoundsnBy: Stephanie Gagos nnAs an abused child I frequently detached as a way of coping with what was happening to me and even though most of my memories were devoid of emotion, it did not mean I was not experiencing emotion. My mother’s unpredictable violence forced me to suppress whatever internal turmoil I was feeling, in order to survive. This pattern of suppression and detachment became n
March 22, 2007
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The Abuse Survivor's Series: Paying Attention to Your Life
As a survivor of multiple forms of childhood abuse, I am aware of how damaging the abuse was to my sense of self, but it is what I think and believe today, that can either reverse the damage or perpetuate it. As children we may have dissociated, detached and pretended that we were not there even as unspeakable acts were performed to our bodies or cruel words crashed into our very souls. Now that we are adults, these mechanisms that served us well in the face of trauma keep us
September 24, 2006